Chapter 517: Amitabha Temple (II)

(a)

It was during that visit that I offered the most important treasure in my husband and wife's life with Liu Shen: the jade pendant. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The piece that the old Han king gave to Liu Shen's mother, and Liu Shen's mother gave it to him, and he was stolen by Zhang Bao's people when he was inspecting Yantang Pass in Weifu, and you gave it to me during the Midyear Festival, and I took it to marry Liu Shen, so Liu Shen decided that I was the jade pendant of the wife that the old Han king chose for him.

When Liu Shen was seriously ill, we had seen this jade pendant for the last time together.

Liu Shen asked me to take it out, and he said that he would love to see the jade pendant again.

He told me about the shock he felt when he was waiting for my carriage at the horse training yard and saw Fu Tianliang helping me slowly get down from the carriage and this jade pendant swaying gently around my waist.

He held the jade pendant tightly.

I felt very guilty when I saw him holding the jade pendant like this.

On that day, I wanted to return this jade pendant to Liu Shen. I said, "This jade pendant is a token of love between your father and your mother, and a proof of their love for you." I said, King Han, let it come back to you, let it be with you from now on, and always be with you. In this world, the father and the queen mother are the people who love the king of Han the most, and there is no one else who loves the king of Han more than them. ”

Liu Shen understood what I meant. He understood, I mean, that he wanted this jade pendant to be his burial object and sleep with him in the majestic imperial tomb.

But he thought about it, and he refused. He gave me the jade pendant again.

He said: "Qin'er, since God has given you this jade pendant, there must be the meaning of Heaven in it." It must have had a more valuable use than giving me a burial. Heaven has chosen you to do this. ”

That day, Liu Shen said to me, "Qin'er, you decide where and what it will be used for." You don't have to give it back to me. You don't have to keep it out of obligation. I agree with what you do. You don't have to keep it around for long because it's mine. That's not what you really want to. I've forced you to do so many things in my life that you don't want to do. I've pretty much let your whole life be consumed in things you don't want to do. ”

"Now, I'm dying," he said. I don't want to force you to do anything more after I die. At least, you don't have to be reluctant to do anything in this matter. You are free to decide. ”

He said: "The joy and liberation of your freedom is my best burial gift, and it is the only thing that can allow me to sleep in peace in the ground." ”

When I heard this, I bowed my head and wept, "Without the care and benevolence of King Han, how could I feel happy." ”

I choked and leaned on his shoulder. I said, "Our lives have long been integrated, and if the king of Han leaves me too, how can I be happy." ”

Liu Shen listened to the "also" in my words. He smiled warmly. He put his arm around my shoulder. He gently patted me on the shoulder.

He said, "Why am I so useless?" Being alive doesn't make you happy. Dead, even can't. ”

I listened, choked up and couldn't speak.

I said, "Qin'er has been ashamed of the King of Han all her life. There is no way to repay the affection and tolerance of the Han King. ”

Liu Shen patted me on the shoulder again and said, "It's okay, it's okay, you are now almost old enough to be a grandmother, you are the supreme woman in the world, we rely on each other like this, and we are in tears with each other, which is a bit inappropriate." ”

He said, "It's okay. It really doesn't matter. We've met, we've gotten along, and it's fine. ”

(b)

When I returned to Yantang Pass to worship and offer the statue of Amitabha Buddha, I offered this jade pendant to Amitabha Buddha. At that time, I didn't know what Amitabha Buddha meant, but since I heard the sound of the monks chanting Buddha and the teachings of Master Lotus in the temple before the crown prince was born, I had an indescribable confidence in Amitabha Buddha and a deep sense of intimacy.

I decided to offer this priceless jade pendant to the Buddha statue.

I respectfully took off the jade pendant and brought it to the offering table with both hands.

After I finished prostrating, I closed my eyes and prayed: "If in this life, I have done anything right, something wise, something that benefits all beings in the world, something that conforms to the truth, if I have done these things, if I have done any benefit, any good retribution, any merit, I am willing to give these benefits, these good retribution, these merit." ”

I prayed, "I am willing to share all these blessings and benefits with the unfortunate, the dead, the painful, and the weeping." But beg, in the future life, I can still meet him, I can still love him, I can still love and be harmonious, I can still stay with each other, I can still remember my past life, I will not forget my previous fate, I can share my fate with him, I can share his pain, and I will remember to explore the path of liberation from life and death. ”

I prayed: "I also hope that I can meet King Han again, and always be his best friend, the most loyal friend, a friend who will never give up in life and death, share wealth and prosperity, and share danger and hardship." May I be able to soothe the pain of his soul that he does not tell anyone, may I warm his loneliness, may I be able to take care of his family and children, and may I be able to repay him for all his efforts in this life. ”

(c)

At that time, I didn't know what enlightenment was, and I didn't know how to make a vow correctly. That's why I made such a wish. And because of this desire, I later had such and such a life.

That's the origin of my main experience in this life. Because I sowed such a seed, so, in the end, I reaped such a fruit.

Now, I don't make that vow again. Right now. I will make the only vow: May all sentient beings be born in the Pure Land of Bliss of Amitabha Buddha, and all will quickly attain the path of Buddhahood, and be free from all the sufferings of life and death forever.

From now on, and even in the infinite future, for the rest of my life, I will make this wish: May all sentient beings quickly become Buddhas.

I am now again rightly dedicating the merits I made in my previous life to the right ones. Make a wish like this, and that piece of jade pendant can really be used to the fullest. I will not disappoint the love of all people and the hope of all life.

All the loneliness in all the worlds, they all have a common name. The name is: there is no beginning and no end.

It never started, it can be terminated completely. Because it didn't start in the first place, it decided that it could be completely ended.

I wrote this story in the hope that everyone who has seen and heard it will understand that this is not someone else's past. This was and was yours. It's yours. And you, too, are a continuation of it. The so-called independence does not exist. All of them are shared by all. Never has it been.

(iv)

It's a long story. I have loved and been loved like this.

Each of us has loved and been loved like this countless times.

It's just that you all forgot. And I still remember. (To be continued.) )